ALFRED STIEGLITZ: REVOLUTIONIZING THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY

According to John Gould Fletcher, Alfred Stieglitz was a “philosopher, guide, teacher, discoverer of genius, inspirer of the machine age, prophet and Messiah. (Block 764) It would be difficult to argue Fletcher’s statement because it was Stieglitz who provided the essential example of the mean by which the artist could reach out to a new and more accurate mode of representing the world of experience. Stieglitz knew that many hardly even considered photography an art and was determined to prove otherwise. Through his many different photography techniques, Alfred Stieglitz revolutionized photography by opposing the traditional standards of art and photography. And since his talent was so enormous, it was not difficult for him to prove that photography was an important art. This father of photography was the man who did the most for art in America.
When Stieglitz was born on the first of January in 1864 no one realized what a genius this young Jewish boy would become. (Block 764...